Motors The Official bit-tech F1 2011 Thread

FUUUU!

I even checked back several posts! Not my fault everyone is behind my time (+8GMT) - you are all in yesterday!

 

Unlucky Bindi, you're in the future and still can't avoid a repost.

Good news about bahrain, oz is always the best starter.

Testing is always full of rumour and sandbagging, we'll only know for sure in q2 at albert park.

 

Yeah.
My opinion is that even the teams and drivers don't really know who is how fast. They know if they're sandbagging themselves, but the rest of it is speculation.

The one thing we CAN see in testing is reliability. Lewis doing 107 laps is good news for McLaren.

 

Ok, RAR'd up the old F1 piccies and stuck them up with mediafire. Enjoy!

Classic F1 Pictures

EDIT: I should have said when posting that there are three unpleasant pictures of the tragic accident resulting the death of Tom Pryce in 1977. My apologies for not saying so upon posting, i should be more alert to this since i can't really deal with it very well myself (i was shown the footage of Roger Williamsons crash once and cried like a little girl). They're not massively horrific but they are in there. There is also one of the accident which sadly killed Carel De Beaufort in 1964 but this is an image of the aftermath showing the car only.

 

Awesome collection, thanks for sharing!

+rep for you!

 

In the news today:
Williams launches its 2011 Livery.

Webb says "10 days more is not huge a all. Won't make a difference.". Pinocchio agrees. Williams disagrees.

 

Bahrain Starting Grid

 

That just made me LOL my coffee over my keyboard....

+Rep

 

ROFL.
+Rep indeed

 

LOLtastic!

 

Anyone else wonder what a safety car would look like then?

 

Like this?

 

Looks like even F1 can't escape the rebadging that's rife in the motor industry:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9409120.stm

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that just sounds like they found a way to avoid the budget cap and spend 8m Euros on - oh I don't know... developing flexing front wings, etc...

 

On second thought - I reckon Ferrari, Renault and Merc GP also don't apy for their engines, but rather get them sponsored by the holding car company

 

Its to do with the KERS system . Nissan will be handling kERS development leaving red bull to concentrate on battery technology.
Linky

/Glock suffers appendicitis/

They say he should be back by for testing next week, tho it was said yesterday that Jerome D'Ambrosio will be doing the 4days testing

 

Red Bull was the last remaining team still paying for thier engines aparently

 

http://www.planetf1.com/news/3213/6788725/Duo-Admit-The-MP4-26-Is-Off-The-Pace

Bad news if you are a Macca fan! Shades of the MP4-18 and MP4-24!

 

DAMN!!!

I wish they would put Lewis is a decent car for once! Still i rate a top 5 finish for him, that kid can drive the nuts off anything!

 

Developed too much too soon. They still could possibly get of to a bad start but as the pieces fall into place this car could turn out to be a monster towards the end, Either that or they'll go in circles with balancing issues and have an awful season. It all depends on the development cycle of the other teams. the first few races say nothing of what is to come. All it takes is for one flexing wing to fall into place that will give the few extra .10s they might need.